MORGANTOWN — Friday was a bad news-good news day at the governor's COVID briefing. The bad news was that the death toll reached 6,739, with Gov. Jim Justice announcing 88 deaths since his Monday briefing (47 of those being reconciliations of prior deaths just reaching the state ...
WVU MEDICINE A $100,000 grant from the Antero Foundation will support top-notch care for expectant mothers and sick children at the new WVU Medicine Children’s hospital. Representatives from the Antero Foundation visited the new hospital Friday for a check presentation and tour. The ...
MORGANTOWN — Thursday marked the two-year anniversary of West Virginia's first COVID-19 cases. Gov. Jim Justice noted the occasion during his Friday COVID briefing with a brief video produced by his staff recalling some of his remarks and urgings along the way — get tested, get masked, ...
MORGANTOWN — When Monongalia County residents have a medical emergency, they count on Mon EMS to show up. Now Mon EMS personnel are hopeful the county’s voters will show up for them in November. Mon EMS Executive Director Forest Weyen told the Monongalia County Commission on ...
BY MIKE NOLTING Like the rest of the state, hospitalizations are dropping at both major hospitals in the Morgantown area. WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright and Chief Administrative Officer at Mon Health Mark Gilliam said numbers at both facilities are down and staff morale is improving. Both were guests recently on WAJR’s Talk of the Town. “We’ve still got some COVID cases, but it’s good to see it getting better and hopefully it will keep going in that direction,” Wright said. “Probably our biggest challenge right now is staffing and making sure we have ...
MORGANTOWN — After six weeks of serving in critical support roles at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, the 25 Air and Army National Guard members assigned to the mission have departed for the final time. As they exited Friday, more than two dozen employees holding blue and gold pompoms and ...
